Mathematical Platonism is the view that mathematical objects exist. Traditional Pla-tonists believe that a world with no mathematical objects is consistent; subtle Platonists believe that such a world would be inconsistent. The easiest way of getting a handle on traditional Platonism is by imagining a creation myth. On the first day God created light; by the sixth day, she had created a large a...

The traditional treatment of mistakes in Anglo-American jurisprudence has been as follows.3 If one engages in the prohibited conduct by mistake (as to what conduct one is engaging in), or causes the harm the law seeks to avoid by mistake (as to the riskiness of one's conduct), then, unless the crime requires the specific intent to engage in the particular conduct or cause the harm, in which cas...

English Contract Law has long struggled to understand the effect of a fundamental common mistake in contract formation. Bell v. Lever Brothers Ltd. [1932] A.C. 161 recognises that a common mistake which totally undermines a contract renders it void. Solle v. Butcher [1950] 1 K.B. 671 recognises a doctrine of ‘mistake in equity’ under which a serious common mistake in contract formation falling ...

We study the problem of learning parity functions that depend on at most k variables (kparities) attribute-efficiently in the mistake-bound model. We design a simple, deterministic, polynomial-time algorithm for learning k-parities with mistake bound O(n1− 1 k ). This is the first polynomial-time algorithm to learn ω(1)-parities in the mistake-bound model with mistake bound o(n). Using the stan...